Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was a visionary and a ground-breaking scholar and translator of Islamic mysticism. His understanding of the Imagination as the fundamental creative principle in the World is urgently needed in our pluralistic and interconnected global society. Corbin was a friend and colleague of C.G. Jung and shared his view of the significance of the active ...
1938-11-09 Berlin, Germany / Crystal Night / Kristallnacht / Noite de Cristal / Noche de Cristal
Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. Fires were lit, and prayer books, scrolls, artwork and philosophy texts were thrown upon them. Over 1,000 synagoges were burned, many Jewish cemeteries and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were either destroyed or damaged. 91 Jewish people were murdered during the attacks. 30,000 Jewish men ...